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Looking at the output, the kernel it is showing, he installed UP6 and should be up to date imho.

guyfromfl,

As said before, LMDE doesn't recieve updates just like that. It's updated with UP's (Update Packs) that contain updates of packages that are tested thoroughly to asure stability of the system. LMDE is also a cyclic- or semi-rolling distro, not a full rolling release distro that recieves daily or weekly updates.

Months can go by before a new UP is released.

The latest UP was released in December (UP6) and contained over 1200 updates, so it's right no further updates came in after that. When UP7 is ready and will show up, we will recieve the next load of updates. That's how LMDE works.

the default kernel that comes with the iso you downloaded is 3.2.0-2, you only get 0-4 after update to UP6 that is the latest update-pack available atm;this means that you installed and immediately after you had a huge update (over 1000 pkgs) since then there has been no updates